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Two companies will lay off a combined 205 employees and permanently close two call centers,
according to filings with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

DialAmerica Marketing of Mahwah, N.J., told the state it will close its facility at 100 E.
Campus View Blvd., Suite 150, on Aug. 23 and permanently lay off 143 employees. The office opened
in 1987.

The layoffs come less than a month after DialAmerica, the nation’s largest privately held
telemarketing company, announced that it planned to open an office in Indianapolis and hire 170
workers to staff it.

DialAmerica officials did not return calls seeking more information about the layoffs.

In a move that will cost 62 jobs, Verizon Wireless told the state that it will close its
continuity marketing operations department at 5175 Emerald Parkway, Dublin, on Aug. 31. The
department deals with early upgrades and other sales to cellphone customers.

Nearly 4,000 employees work for Verizon in Ohio, with at least 1,500 employees in central
Ohio.

The layoffs at Verizon’s call center are a result of a cost-cutting drive as the company looks
to save $2 billion in operating expenses nationally and keep pace with its competitors, officials
at Verizon said.

Earlier this week, the company announced that it would lay off 381 employees at its Youngstown
call center, and it has also announced cuts of 94 call-center jobs in Sacramento, Calif., and 72 in
Atlanta.